Mintlify · 1 day ago
Senior Backend Engineer
Mintlify is on a mission to empower builders by providing a documentation platform that serves millions of developers. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale their core product infrastructure, design APIs, and improve backend system performance and reliability.
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Responsibilities
Backend software engineering to build and scale our core product infrastructure
Designing and building APIs and services to support product features
Maintaining and improving performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems
Collaborating with product and design to build customer-facing functionality
Operating, owning, and running code for backend systems in production
Scaling, operating, and extending our infrastructure
Building the core product, from APIs to agentic pipelines
Working directly with customers to solve their problems
Qualification
Required
You have 4+ years of software development experience
You are empathetic towards customers, having the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions
You have a strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains
You possess a strong ownership mentality with the ability to act independently and lead major features through development and deployment
Preferred
Bonus points: You previously founded a startup
Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup
Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity
20 days paid time off every year
401k or RRSP
$420/mo. wellness stipend
Health, dental, vision
Free Ubers to and from work
Free lunch and dinners
Annual team offsite
Company
Mintlify
The intelligent documentation platform
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$21.7MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzBain Capital VenturesY Combinator
2024-09-03Series A· $18.5M
2022-05-30Seed· $2.7M
2022-01-01Pre Seed· $0.5M
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